The Fool By The Roadside

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

(version of The Hero, The Girl And The Fool)

When all works that have From cradle run to grave From grave to cradle run instead; When thoughts that a fool Has wound upon a spool Are but loose thread, are but loose thread;

When cradle and spool are past And I mere shade at last Coagulate of stuff Transparent like the wind, I think that I may find A faithful love, a faithful love.

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